What's something that you had a hard time convincing someone to do? Did they end up giving in and doing it?

I got my brother to stick his lips and tongue on a metal pole in the middle of the Canadian winter. It took a while to convince him but he did it. I got grounded for that one.

People try to get me to do things that I tell them I don't want to do. Then they nag and nag and bring the subject up all the time to wear me down. I then threaten them to stop mentioning the request. They never stop asking, they get obsessed. They are relentless. The more I say NO, the more they are fixated on changing my mind. I never change my mind. They approach the subject from every angle and I sometimes wonder if their goal is just to annoy me, or just to engage in conversation with someone. So it gets to the point where I just don't answer them. Energy seems to flow into them, to concentrate more and more on getting me to change my mind. They gather the energy of every known volcano, earthquake, tsunami, typhoon, nuclear bomb, and put it into the request. Every NO! is met with clenching of teeth, hissing through the teeth, glaring, and the word WHY? WHY? WHY? repeated over and over. I tell 'em LEAVE ME, GET SOMEONE ELSE AND THEY CAN DO IT and they all say, NO, I LOVE YOU AND I CAN'T SEE WHY YOU WON'T DO THIS IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME. YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T LOVE ME. Then I leave them when it gets unbearable and eventually go on to the next one. After 6 months the next one starts the same caper and so on and so forth. I don't describe the last one's behaviour to the next one, so I don't know why I get a series of people who do this. Only a couple of these requests have been sexual, the rest have been oddball things. My current man hasn't started this yet, thank goodness, and it has been two years now, so I think he might be THE ONE!!! It could be that I willingly do everything he wants, but so far he hasn't wanted anything unreasonable. The only thing I have tried convincing people to do is to not ask for the particular things I consider unreasonable and I have never succeeded in convincing them. There is one other thing that I ask lovers to do, and that is SHUT THE DOOR and they never do it. Every time they come in or out, the door is left open and I am sure they do it to punish me for not doing what they want. There are 2 dogs and 2 cats of the neighbours that come in uninvited if the door is left open. And if I go out and shut the door and they are locked in, I have to clean up the mess.

I spent 3 months persuading my mum to let me get my belly button pierced for my 13th b'day. She eventually said yes. lol

getting the girl i asked out to say yes, she didn't give in =/

i tried to convince by uncle to quit smoking... didn't work (almost!)